everytime i see a haseeb qureshi thread i feel the need to share this

the million dollar bet

he knows how to tell a story

Someone please answer this... were not all reading nerds like you.

Really hard to give cliffs on the Haseeb stuff. There were at least a half-dozen threads with thousands of posts while it was going on.

Best summary might be the SrslySirius video (lol) Dogishead.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29...rt-iv-1082497/

FYP

wow, he must still feel extremely guilty

btw, notice how these guys always talk about having made mistakes instead of admitting that they have/had deeply flawed personalities?
yeah, it was just a few mistakes, some things i did, but apart from that i'm really a good guy, just like you, and i won't repeat my mistakes

and this. it blows my mind that so many people fail to realise that very often, when people publicly do charitable deeds, i.e. they tell people they have done something generous, this is a means to improving their public image and getting praise.

he invented the girah persona. not sure to what degree he was invovled with various MAing and ghosting scams involving girah.

Sigh deducting 70k does not mean he pays 70k less in taxes it's not that ****ing hard to understand.

Didnt the Lord Jesus Christ say we should be forgiving to our fellow human beings? I forgive Haseeb Qureshi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEL6...e_gdata_player

This is tilting me too. Even I understand this concept, and I hardly know anything about being a responsible adult.

Here's a very simplified example on how deductions work:

Let's pretend that everyone in the US has a flat income tax rate of 30%. If you make $100,000/year, then your "taxable income" is 100k, and you owe 30k in taxes.

That's not counting deductions, though. Suppose I donate to charity and write a bunch of stuff off as deductions, totaling $30,000. This does NOT mean that I pay $0 in taxes ($30k - $30k). It means that my "taxable income" now becomes $70,000 ($100k - $30k). I still pay 30% of my taxable income, so now I owe $21,000 in taxes.

[X] Narcissistic personality disorder

Clff from linked wiki article:
"Some people diagnosed with a Narcissistic Personality Disorder are characterized by unwarranted feelings of self-importance. They have a sense of entitlement and demonstrate grandiosity in their beliefs and behavior. They have a strong need for admiration, but lack feelings of empathy."

Haha this so much.

Is Haseeb the freaky looking cheater dude with a sideline in second rate homoerotic literature?

Well I for one believe him and have absolutely no need to see any proof of his altruism.

Come the F on people, a guy is giving away ~$490k to others and you still flame him for it

Give him at least a bit of credit for some selflessness you savages

^ not sure if serious

i do not understand what he did

"steal from the rich and give to the...your family"

-Robin Haseeb Qureshi

C- level.

He wrote a book that turns up if you totally randomly and completely out the blue suddenly decide to google him now.

So he scammed people and bought real estate with the stolen money...then he gave the real estate to his parents...and we're supposed to be impressed that he gave away the money he stole to other people?
wtf?

I am 100000000000000000000% serious

Is the problem people have that they believe the money he's giving to others wasn't "earned"? How much did he make scamming? Thought he made his money being legit good at poker

Seems like people are just incapable of forgiving a guy for something they did 2+ years ago... isn't it possible to change as a person over a significant % of your life?

I mean look at this thread

"I am giving away all my money"
"WHAT A SCUMBAG"

This just all seems like a bunch of pitchfork-and-torches mob mentality where people get some weird satisfaction out of the thought that someone they have at least some jealousy of (due to making it as far in poker as the average NVGtard dreams of) can lose it all... or some sort of other inferiority complex bull****

The girah scandal was like August 2011, get over it

1. Steal money!
2. Get caught
3. Publicly give some of the stolen money to your parents a few years later
4. Watch as Christ, De 'Berg gives you a standing ovation while wiping a tear from his eye at how unselfish and wonderful you are

Makes sense...

Yes stupid people will fall for that. The problem is poker players are smarter than that.

I used to think that being a poker player was kinda cool. But apart from a small minority, poker players are socially inept weirdos that spend too much time online. F U 2p2.

For the record:

You're absolutely right, I posted about this publicly on my blog because I wanted people to know about it. I didn't leave myself with much money, so I wanted my book's release to go well. I have no problem being upfront about that.

It's true though, I was dreading NVG picking this up. I thought it probably would, but I didn't know for sure. I did used to be a part of this community--it was my home for most of my poker career--so it hurts to read people telling me I'm worthless. The Girah Scandal also happened here, and this is where people hate me most.

But for the those saying I scammed anyone--that's just outright untrue. What I did do was lie to the poker community about my relationship with Girah (for whom I was acting as a backer & manager), I helped write a lot of his material, and was involved in a chipdump. The chief transgressions of the Girah Scandal were: Girah actually scamming/cheating people, Jungle playing on his account, and me lying to people and chipdumping stake money to Girah during the Bluff Challenge (which I didn't know about, and from which he got disqualified). I made a big thread going into detail about everything and answering a bunch of questions from people before I quit.

But I have never scammed anyone in my life, and I've paid back every debt and bet I've ever made. Anyone who knows me, both before and after I quit poker, will tell you this. You can call me a liar or a dishonest person. I'll cop to that. But I am absolutely not a scammer, and I've never stolen money from anyone. I actually lost more money than anyone in the Girah scandal--I had 90k stolen from me by Jason Burt, and Girah never paid us back any of the money he owed us after the scandal (we were staking him). The idea that I somehow made money from that, or from "cheating people" is just wrong.

As for whether I should be more conscious of my personality being flawed rather than my actions, I think you're right. I've reflected on a lot on that in the last few years. Maybe dishonesty is just a part of my personality. I'm trying my best to change.

And yes, I made less than $75K last year. Also, charitable donations are only deductible for up to half of your total income for any year are, although the excess can roll over to subsequent years (most people don't know this, and I certainly didn't until I looked into it) so I still have to pay significant taxes for 2013 on top of the donations. Donating money to charity can't really be tax evasion. The only time donating money to charity is strategically advantageous from a tax perspective is when it puts you into a lower tax bracket, which isn't really applicable here.

http://www.legalzoom.com/taxes/perso...s-how-much-can

(Oh, and I don't know the OP.)